CPython implementation detail: The math module consists mostly of thin wrappers

around the platform C math library functions. Behavior in exceptional cases follows
Annex F of the C99 standard where appropriate. The current implementation will
raise ValueError for invalid operations like sqrt(-1.0) or log(0.0) (where C99
Annex F recommends signaling invalid operation or divide-by-zero),
and OverflowError for results that overflow (for example, exp(1000.0)). A NaN
will not be returned from any of the functions above unless one or more of the input
arguments was a NaN; in that case, most functions will return a NaN, but (again
following C99 Annex F) there are some exceptions to this rule, for
example pow(float('nan'), 0.0)or hypot(float('nan'), float('inf')).
Note that Python makes no effort to distinguish signaling NaNs from quiet NaNs, and
behavior for signaling NaNs remains unspecified. Typical behavior is to treat all
NaNs as though they were quiet.
Changed in version 2.6: Behavior in special cases now aims to follow C99 Annex F.
In earlier versions of Python the behavior in special cases was loosely specified.